Samburuceros
| Samburuceros Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Subfamily: | †Elasmotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Samburuceros |
| Species: | †S. ishidai
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| †Samburuceros ishidai Handa et al., 2017
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Samburuceros is an extinct monotypic genus of elasmotheriin rhinoceros that lived in East Africa during the Tortonian stage of the Miocene epoch.
Description
[edit]Samburuceros ishidai, the type species of the genus, can be distinguished from its closest relative Victoriaceros on the basis of S. ishidai having an enamel ring on the medisinus of M2 and M3. S. ishidai also possesses a distinct lingual groove on the protocone of the M2 and M3.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Handa, Naoto; Nakatsukasa, Masato; Kunimatsu, Yutaka; Nakaya, Hideo (June 2017). "A new Elasmotheriini (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the upper Miocene of Samburu Hills and Nakali, northern Kenya". Geobios. 50 (3): 197–209. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.04.002. Retrieved 24 June 2026 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
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